You use the expression SPECIFIED in preconditions, selection conditions, or the conditional section of actions and procedures, to define that the condition is fulfilled if a characteristic has any value assigned to it. The specific value assigned is not relevant.

If you use a condition like this as, for example, a selection condition for an operation in a task list, the operation is included in the task list explosion if a value is assigned to characteristic SPECIAL_PAINT when the condition is processed. It does not matter which value you assign to the characteristic.

The negative form NOT SPECIFIED always goes before the characteristic variable.

• You cannot use NOT SPECIFIED in actions and constraints.